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Century Aluminum (CENX) Competitors

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$31.60 +3.51 (+12.50%)
Closing price 10/8/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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CENX vs. KALU, AA, FCX, HBM, SCCO, ESAB, AMBP, TRS, NWPX, and EAF

Should you be buying Century Aluminum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Century Aluminum include Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Alcoa (AA), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), HudBay Minerals (HBM), Southern Copper (SCCO), ESAB (ESAB), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), TriMas (TRS), NWPX Infrastructure (NWPX), and GrafTech International (EAF).

Century Aluminum vs. Its Competitors

Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) and Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment and earnings.

Century Aluminum presently has a consensus price target of $28.50, suggesting a potential downside of 9.81%. Kaiser Aluminum has a consensus price target of $82.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.07%. Given Kaiser Aluminum's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kaiser Aluminum is more favorable than Century Aluminum.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Century Aluminum
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Kaiser Aluminum
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

In the previous week, Century Aluminum had 9 more articles in the media than Kaiser Aluminum. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Century Aluminum and 3 mentions for Kaiser Aluminum. Century Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Kaiser Aluminum's score of 0.72 indicating that Century Aluminum is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Century Aluminum
4 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Kaiser Aluminum
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.52, suggesting that its share price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kaiser Aluminum has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.

61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Century Aluminum has a net margin of 4.94% compared to Kaiser Aluminum's net margin of 2.05%. Century Aluminum's return on equity of 18.02% beat Kaiser Aluminum's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Century Aluminum4.94% 18.02% 6.21%
Kaiser Aluminum 2.05%8.03%2.41%

Century Aluminum has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kaiser Aluminum. Kaiser Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Century Aluminum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Century Aluminum$2.22B1.33$336.80M$1.1627.24
Kaiser Aluminum$3.02B0.44$46.80M$3.8921.10

Summary

Century Aluminum beats Kaiser Aluminum on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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CENX vs. The Competition

MetricCentury AluminumMETAL PROC&FABR IndustryIndustrials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.62B$2.42B$7.85B$10.54B
Dividend YieldN/A2.93%4.57%4.71%
P/E Ratio27.2429.64303.8827.60
Price / Sales1.339.801,291.85202.41
Price / Cash6.1935.9128.2661.55
Price / Book4.432.454.956.76
Net Income$336.80M$107.36M$791.48M$275.88M
7 Day Performance5.97%2.45%1.02%2.81%
1 Month Performance45.35%7.43%5.77%9.24%
1 Year Performance98.31%22.48%30.78%35.42%

Century Aluminum Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CENX
Century Aluminum
3.6365 of 5 stars
$31.60
+12.5%
$28.50
-9.8%
+107.3%$2.62B$2.22B27.242,971Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
KALU
Kaiser Aluminum
3.099 of 5 stars
$76.14
-2.0%
$78.00
+2.4%
+16.4%$1.26B$3.02B19.574,000Analyst Forecast
AA
Alcoa
4.6077 of 5 stars
$33.83
+3.4%
$42.27
+25.0%
-1.8%$8.47B$11.90B8.8313,900Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
Gap Up
FCX
Freeport-McMoRan
4.7706 of 5 stars
$37.14
+3.9%
$46.74
+25.8%
-11.8%$51.33B$25.46B28.1428,500Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
HBM
HudBay Minerals
2.7917 of 5 stars
$15.19
+7.3%
N/A+90.8%$5.60B$2.02B20.812,803Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
SCCO
Southern Copper
3.245 of 5 stars
$121.06
+3.5%
$93.67
-22.6%
+17.2%$94.08B$11.43B26.4916,133Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
ESAB
ESAB
4.4861 of 5 stars
$109.42
-0.6%
$141.44
+29.3%
+16.2%$6.68B$2.74B26.189,300Analyst Forecast
AMBP
Ardagh Metal Packaging
2.6426 of 5 stars
$3.96
+0.4%
$4.32
+9.2%
+0.8%$2.35B$4.91B-131.836,300Analyst Forecast
TRS
TriMas
4.774 of 5 stars
$38.50
+0.3%
$45.00
+16.9%
+49.0%$1.56B$925.01M42.313,900Positive News
Analyst Forecast
NWPX
NWPX Infrastructure
2.622 of 5 stars
$52.12
-0.6%
$57.50
+10.3%
+18.6%$506.15M$492.55M15.701,358Positive News
Analyst Forecast
EAF
GrafTech International
0.6576 of 5 stars
$13.16
-4.9%
$16.25
+23.5%
+3.2%$357.02M$538.78M-1.601,072News Coverage
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:CENX) was last updated on 10/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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